Buck and the Preacher - The Criterion Collection

With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, SIDNEY POITIER (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) helped rewrite the history of the western, bringing Black heroes to a genre in which they had always been sorely underrepresented.Combining boisterous buddy comedy with blistering, Black Power-era political fury, Poitier and a marvellously mischievous HARRY BELAFONTE (Carmen Jones) star as a tough and taciturn wagon master and an unscrupulous, pistol-packing 'preacher,' who join forces in order to take on the white bounty hunters threatening a westward-bound caravan of recently freed enslaved people.A superbly crafted revisionist landmark, Buck and the Preacher subverts Hollywood conventions at every turn and reclaims the western genre in the name of Black liberation.Special Edition Features:New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrackNew interview with Mia Mask, author of Black Rodeo: A History of the African American WesternBehind-the-scenes footage featuring actor-director Sidney Poitier and actor-producer Harry BelafonteInterviews with Poitier and Belafonte from 1972 episodes of Soul! and The Dick Cavett ShowNew interview with Gina Belafonte, daughter of Harry BelafonteEnglish subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearingPLUS: An essay by critic Aisha Harris